Grim historic parallels in Trump’s ascension

I just read a study of newspapers’ reaction to Adolf Hitler’s initial rise to power in Weimar Germany. It was similar to Donald Trump’s rise to power and attempts to normalize Trump by some of the media.

The analysis, “A Failure of Narrative,” by Harrison Jacobs, states: “The newspapers, in the beginning, often accepted the predominant idea that the Nazis and Hitler were generally the tool of Alfred Hugenberg and his Nationalist party, and assumed that once integrated into the power structure, the Nazis would be tempered in their extreme ambitions and move towards the middle.”

Well, we know how that played out; Hitler was the Hitler of his rhetoric. So, too, President-elect Trump is showing he will be the Trump of the campaign and is a great danger to America and the world. Trump opponents, including some patriotic Republicans like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will have to try to prevent Trump from becoming president. The first scenario is to swing electoral votes away from Trump and elect Clinton. If that fails, God help us all.